Thousands of human trafficking victims from all over Asia – and as far away as Africa – are trapped at a scam casino complex on the Thai-Burmese border that RFA has been…
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Kim Ju Ae’s fancy outfits and frequent TV appearances are generating resentment
Donning ever-fancier clothing at each new public appearance, 10-year-old Kim Ju Ae is starting to become an object of resentment in the eyes of many North Koreans, sources in the country say….
Baton-wielding Vietnamese police crush protest against drainage project
Swinging batons and bashing villagers, Vietnamese police dispersed dozens of members of the Ede ethnic group who were attempting to interfere with a drainage project they fear will discharge wastewater into a…
Leaked memo shows top Communist Party officials intervened in sentencing of Fang Bin
Officials at the highest level of the Chinese Communist Party"s law enforcement arm ordered a court in the central city of Wuhan to drop subversion charges against citizen journalist Fang Bin and…
Myanmar military beheads man in Sagaing region village
Junta troops tortured a man and cut off his head after raiding a village in Myanmar’s northern Sagaing region, locals told RFA. They said troops also burned down 53 houses and a…
Junta’s second bombing of Sagaing village meant to destroy evidence, rebels say
A military airstrike last week on a village in Myanmar’s northern Sagaing region where an earlier attack killed nearly 200 people was part of a bid to “destroy evidence,” a member of…
Japanese woman of Uyghur origin wins seat in Japan’s parliament
A Japanese woman of Uyghur ethnicity and who was educated in the United States has been elected a member of the Japanese parliament — the first person of Uyghur heritage to run…
Weekend attacks in Cambodia’s capital target two more opposition party members
Two more opposition party activists were assaulted over the weekend as they traveled in Phnom Penh – the latest in a series of similar attacks in recent months that members of the…
Chinese aircraft carrier returns to South China Sea
China’s aircraft carrier the Shandong left the Western Pacific and returned to its usual operational area, the South China Sea, the Japanese Ministry of Defense has said. Ten days before this, the…
Former UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki-moon meets with junta leaders in Myanmar
Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made a surprise visit to Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw over the weekend and met with junta chief Sr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing to discuss the country’s political…